PlantBuzz
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Welcome to PlantBuzz!
Plantbuzz.com is the starting point to Mark McDonough's eclectic horticultural musings and illustrated plant studies on the web. From here, you can access several areas of horticultural study that monopolized my attention over the past 30 years. The section for which I have greatest ambition is Allium Central, the goal being the most complete resource on the web dedicated to the genus Allium. With similar scarcity of on-line information as Allium, the hardy hibiscus are a wonderful group of woody shrubs and herbaceous perennials worthy of greater prominence in gardens and literature. Visit the Hardy Hibiscus Home to learn more about these late blooming plants, and to access pertinent links. To round out the miscellany of horticultural topics, Cleome Studies provides links and information on this large genus of showy annual plants, for which only a few species are known and grown. And last, there is the Rock Gardening page, a miscellany unto itself, exploring any and all alpine, rock garden, and woodland plants that interest me. |
What's the Buzz? Click on the
links below for featured images and discussion in support of topics on Alpine-L and
other on-line botanical forums. New
buzz:
Two
2-toned Crocus 2002 Two
beautiful spring crocus.
Scutellaria 'Red Fountains'
A tender
Skullcap? Info requested!
More pages: Blue Allium Worksheet - data, key, and pictures of blue allium species Garden Scenes Gallery - views of Allium flavum ssp. tauricum beds Allium sikkimense Portrait - revealing view of this beautiful onion Allium sieheanum Portrait Gallery 1 - a choice Turkish onion Allium sieheanum Portrait Gallery 2 - more portrait shots Allium jacquemontii & A. griffithianum - Ooh...look at these beauties. Allium Hybrids Gallery - some of my
rhizomatous allium hybrids. American Alliums Gallery - just some of the
130 N.American alliums |
| Allium Central
Allium flavum ssp. tauricum, unnamed dwarf orange seedling, photo by Marsha Russell, Littleton, MA, USA. |
Hardy Hibiscus Home
Hibiscus syriacus 'Blue Bird' - popular late summer blooming "hardy hibiscus". Photo by Mark McDonough. |
| Cleome Studies
Polanisia dodecandra (syn: Cleome marshalliana), a low-growing, sticky-leafed annual, photo by M. McDonough |
Rock Gardening
Nothoscordum montevidense, dwarf spring & fall blooming bulb from Uruguay, photo by Mark McDonough |
Note: This page and all pages within the PlantBuzz.com area are actively under construction. If pages are blank or very little is there, please try back later. If you have questions or comments on anything seen on these pages, send e-mail to Mark McDonough at antennaria@aol.com.
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Images and textual content copyright © 2000 Mark McDonough This page was last updated on 08/25/07 |